Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- ばれる☆・バレる Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.) (behavior)
- to get away (fish)
- かじか《鰍・杜父魚》とふぎょ《杜父魚》カジカ
noun:
- sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, incl. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb)
- Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)
- 衣食足りて礼節を知る【いしょくたりてれいせつをしる】
expression:
- the poor can't afford manners; only when basic needs for living are met can people spare the effort to be polite - proverb
- ひとしきり《一頻り・一しきり》
adverb / ~の noun:
- for a while; for some time; for a period
ジョンはペルーについてひとしきりしゃべれるんだ。 John can really talk a blue streak about Peru.
- しゃれにならない《洒落にならない》シャレにならない Inflection
expression / adjective:
- not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke
- 商いは牛のよだれ【あきないはうしのよだれ】商いは牛の涎
expression:
- one should not rush to make a profit; business is best run when sales flow like a cow's drool: long and thin - obscure term
- 先端★【せんたん】尖端
noun:
- pointed end; tip; point; cusp (of a leaf, crescent moon, etc.); apex (of a curve)
- forefront; vanguard; spearhead; leading edge
ヨーロッパとアフリカの西海岸をとおりすぎ、アフリカ南部の先端までとびます。 Past the west coasts of Europe and Africa to the tip of southern Africa.
- 御勤め【おつとめ】お勤め
noun:
- one's business - archaism - polite language
- reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
- bargain; discount
- money paid to a prostitute or geisha
- 簓子【ささらこ・ささらのこ】
noun:
- notched bamboo rod rubbed with an implement similar to a bamboo whisk (used as a percussion instrument) ➜ 簓
- wooden vertical batten
- 貯留【ちょりゅう】瀦溜 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- accumulation; retention; collection; sequestration (as in carbon dioxide sequestration); storage (usually a liquid, e.g. rainwater, or behind a dam.)
- お持ち帰り【おもちかえり】
noun:
- one-night stand; taking home a woman from a bar, club, etc. - slang
- takeout (i.e. food); take-out; takeaway; take-away - polite language ➜ 持ち帰り【もちかえり】
- 平和【ピンフ・ピンホー】
noun:
- concealed winning hand consisting of chows, a pair that isn't a value pair, and an open wait - Mahjong term - From Chinese
- 花かるた・花歌留多【はなかるた】花カルタ【はなカルタ】
noun:
- hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札
- 周辺★【しゅうへん】
noun:
- circumference; outskirts; environs; around; in the area of; in the vicinity of
- (computer) peripheral - IT term
北極圏とは北極周辺の地域の事である。 The Arctic is the area round the North Pole.
- 大蔵省★【おおくらしょう】
noun:
大蔵省の役人は景気回復への信頼をより高めようとしました。 Finance Ministry officials tried to boost confidence in recovery.
- 八方☆【はっぽう】
noun:
- all sides; the four cardinal directions and the four ordinal directions
- large hanging lantern ➜ 八方行灯
トムは八方ふさがりの状態だ。 Tom is caught between a rock and a hard place.
- 序の口☆【じょのくち】序ノ口
noun:
- the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning") [序の口]
- lowest division in sumo - Sumo term
- 百尺竿頭【ひゃくせきかんとう・ひゃくしゃくかんとう】
noun:
- the highest state of one's enlightenment; the highest level one can attain - four character idiom
- 遠慮近憂【えんりょきんゆう】
noun:
- Failure to think of the long term leads to grief in the short term - four character idiom
- 八百八町【はっぴゃくやちょう】
noun:
- the whole enormous extent of Edo; from one side of Edo to the other - four character idiom
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